Go Ask Alice Lyrics

Grace Slick wrote the song because of the book which she thought was ironic parents read to their children as it involved drugs and then parents wondered why their children did drugs. The last line is feed your head and Lewis Carroll did indeed write the book.

the book "go ask alice" isnt truly a diary. Did anyone who read it feel it didnt make as much sense as it could have? well i looked into it. alice wasnt the diarist's name...it was never mentioned.but the cloest assumtions is that her name was Carla. and there have been investigations that push that the editor of "Go Ask Alice" was also the author. and she alledgidly made over 50% of the book up.Which is a real bummer.But through her deception, she wrote another book (claimed to be a diary) called Jay's Journals. Everyone figured out it was a boy named Alden Barrett and only 21 of his 69 diary entries were used.The rest of the book was additions from other patients of the "editor" mixed with her own imagination. But truth is, Aldens family had to leave town because of the lies that were in the book. They just couldnt take the rumors.I think its wrong that the editor would screw around in other peoples lives.....

Hi, my name is t3rry. I am 62 years old. I bought the album Surrealistic Pillow whilst still a teenager. I liked the album and especially the song White Rabbit; the song is not titled Go Ask Alice although Grace Slick did coin the term in the song's lyrics.

The song is possibly the best representation of a description of an acid trip that I have ever heard, a difficult task at the best of times, and a task which I once heard described as "explaining color to a blind person."

The era was a time of spiritual, cultural, creative and personal exploration which I have not seen replicated since then, although some of the "raves" of the 90's might have steered in a similar direction.

It was a time when people, en masse, were voicing protest against war and the 9 to 5 lifestyle, cultural mediocrity, social stupidity and the inability to think freely, a time of breaking free of the bullshit of "normality;" a time that encouraged the beginning of the western Hare Krishnas, pop art and abstract painting, free form music, etc. Experimentation with psychedelics was merely a part of a non-violent widespread cultural revolution.

Personally, I loved acid, it helped me explore my own insecurities and priorities, but, I would not recommend LSD in any environment outside of the 60's and 70's as those times were an unparalleled wave of social and personal energies that nurtured the creativity that birthed; one cannot say the same about the current social demeanor.

Peace, unconditional love and organic brown rice - t3rry

I was there as the Jefferson Airplane sang this song. Nothing to do with the book. I still have all the Albums of the era of all the groups over 200.... I was a hippie and now my kids like to listen to the music of the greatest era of our time. All that mattered was music and love...MAKE LOVE NOT WAR...my children....

4th verse, line 4
'And the Red Queen's "Off with her head!"
should read 'And the Red Queen's lost her head!'
The grammatical style of introducing a quotation after the verb 'is' did not exist in 1967.

I was there when this song came out but was just a kid. I keep hearing it in all the 60's Viet Nam movies so I wanted to find out a little more about it. I now understand that this kind of anti-cultural propaganda aided in bringing down the values of America, tumbling our credibility and produced a generation of entitlement minded lazy socialist. Acid popping liberal hippies are the scourge on American Greatness.

....some of you are COMPLETELY wrong, in your "what came first, the song or the book?" information.... The Jefferson Airplane song (White Rabbit), which is quite obviously referencing "Alice in Wonderland" in a lyrical description of shroom/acid-induced psychedelic imagery, was written in either late 1965 (when LSD first started getting popular with the counter-culture) or '66... The book (Go Ask Alice)was written 5 or 6 years later.. While the book is presented as an autobiographical account of an anonymous teenager, it is my opinion that it was another weak attempt by Big Brother to try to present young people with an anti-drug message from an apparently "hip" source... Nonetheless, the song, "White Rabbit" was written quite a while before the book, so the allegedly true accounts of the unnamed fifteen-year-old in the book, "Go Ask Alice" had absolutely no influence on the song... The song was influenced by "Alice in Wonderland" and LSD... Plain and simple... On a side note for Jillian, I too was 12 when I began smoking pot (14 or 15 when I first dropped acid)... While I am a staunch advocate of marijuana decriminalization and I believe marijuana is relatively harmless, it DOES in fact have some negative effects and shouldn't be messed around with at 12 years of age... Let your brain develop naturally in these very important formidable years... there is a time and a place for experimenting with mind expansion.... We call this time and place "college".... I honestly cannot say that I would never touch marijuana and LSD if I could go back a few decades and do it all again, but I definitely wish I would have waited until I was an adult... You only get to be a child once...

For the stupid fan the wrote the top comment the book go ask Alice was written in 1971 and the song white rabbit was in Jefferson airplanes 1967 album. The song has nothing to do with the book. The book got the name from the song dipshit

"lisa", is completely right!! I am 12 years old, but I'm a hippie at heart, and Republicans suck!! (coming from a girl with republican parents!!) John Lennon is my hero, weeeed is my life, peace is my game. this song is definately a drug/physcedelic spin of of Alic in Wonderland, and it's called White Rabbit because of the book Go Ask Alice that called dubs on the name before this song was written (diary of a drug trouble teenager)

No the name of the song is NOT go ask alice - GO LOOK IT UP. I was there when it came out and ya, okay a lot of people referred to it as go ask alice (or should I say reefered to it) and I know how frustrating it is when you find out that something you thought your whole life isn't what you thought it was but it is what it is.

song is based on the book alice in wonderland, and yes the name of the song is " go ask alice" so the college kids who were'nt even born when this song was written go back to reviewing miley cyrus songs.

the song is basically using alice and wonderland as an example on how acid and lsd and weed makes you feel. its not based on alice and wonderland. ther's a possibility that they were watching alice and wonderland while getting stoned. this song has more of a hippie revolution theme but instead they used alice in wonderland.if you read the book go ask alice its actually a diary its badass and the song matches alot with the song. that i know of its not based on that book but i belive it has to do with mad drugs and if you get addicted to them drugs your brain is going to be fried

Political satire my ass! This was written on the basis of Louis Carroll's book during the height of the hippie/drug/world I remember so well. Jefferson Airplane was like Jim Morrision, Icons! To say it was about anything else is pure filth! I'm proud to have been part of that scene and participate in the drugs of the day!
If all the old hippies had stayed interested in the world, it would not be where we are now, bleeding mother earth. If we only had listened to those old songs and put them to use. Instead most have turned into fat ass Republicans that continues to rape the earth!

The history behind "Alice In Wonderland" is almost as good of a story as the novella itself. Lewis Carrol actually wrote the book for Alice (at this moment her surname has escaped my mind, but if anyone wants further info I will be happy to answer e-mails). In brief: Alice was one of three sisters belonging to his Superior. He often visited alone with them and was known for weaving yarns spontaneously that captivated the children. One day Alice asked him to tell a story, not just for her, but also ABOUT her. The story telling began one afternoon on a canoe ride and continued for quite some time. Eventually he was forbidden to see the girls (another interesting and long story). When the book was finally published (another long story) he sent her a copy-that remained unacknowledged by her (no one knows for certain why).

The last lines of the song truly are "FEED YOUR HEAD," as it can be clearly heard while listening to the song, or perhaps if you have the cd you can check in the liner notes where it is most likely noted. The meaning of it all would be altered if the line was in fact "keep."
And the title really is "White Rabbit"